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REGINA — The 42nd Juno Awards dialled in on Carly Rae Jepsen, celebrating the cheerful singer/songwriter and her rollercoaster summer smash “Call Me Maybe” with three trophies that all came at the expense of the teen superstar who helped discover her: Justin Bieber.

More stimuli means less patience. You can see it everywhere, from the parents constantly checking their smartphones to their kids plugged into that iPad during even the briefest of pauses in the day. From the moment we’re awakened by the clock alarm beeping to the time we turn off the tube, switch off the computer and turn out that light, we’re bombarded and assaulted from every angle and every, ever increasing amount of media.

When all else fails, let the music play. The year was 1994 and Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire, commander of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Rwanda, had run out of options. He and more than 200 others, many of them civilians, were being bombarded by artillery fire and bombs at his headquarters in the war-ravaged country. So he went and grabbed his portable radio and pushed the cassette play button.

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